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This book presents psychological assessment and intervention in a
cultural and relational context. A diverse range of contributors
representing six continents and eleven countries write about their
therapeutic interventions, all of which break the traditional
assessor-as-expert-oriented framework and offer a creative
adaptation in service delivery. A Collaborative/Therapeutic
Assessment model, including work with immigrant communities, and
Indigenous modalities underscore individual and collective case
illustrations highlighting equality in the roles of the provider
and the receiver of services. The universality and uniqueness of
culture are explored as a construct and through case material. Some
chapters describe a partnership with a Eurocentric scientific
model, while others adopt a purely community method, preserved with
Indigenous language and subjective methodology. This volume brings
together diverse therapeutic collaborative ideas, and recognizes
relational, community, and cultural psychologies as integral to
mainstream assessment and intervention literature. This book is
essential for psychologists and clinicians internationally and
graduate students.
This book presents psychological assessment and intervention in a
cultural and relational context. A diverse range of contributors
representing six continents and eleven countries write about their
therapeutic interventions, all of which break the traditional
assessor-as-expert-oriented framework and offer a creative
adaptation in service delivery. A Collaborative/Therapeutic
Assessment model, including work with immigrant communities, and
Indigenous modalities underscore individual and collective case
illustrations highlighting equality in the roles of the provider
and the receiver of services. The universality and uniqueness of
culture are explored as a construct and through case material. Some
chapters describe a partnership with a Eurocentric scientific
model, while others adopt a purely community method, preserved with
Indigenous language and subjective methodology. This volume brings
together diverse therapeutic collaborative ideas, and recognizes
relational, community, and cultural psychologies as integral to
mainstream assessment and intervention literature. This book is
essential for psychologists and clinicians internationally and
graduate students.
This book illuminates the process of child psychological assessment
in community psychology through discussion, theory, and case
studies of collaborative, systemic treatment of children and their
parents. "Assessing Children in the Urban Community" presents a
semi-structured form of collaborative psychological assessment,
designed to help clients gain new insights and make changes in
their lives. Traditional psychological assessment focuses on
diagnosis and treatment but has been slow to include contextual
elements, particularly social and cultural contexts into the
assessment process and psychological report. Clients receiving
services in a community psychology clinic pay for their treatment
through state welfare coverage. They cannot choose their providers,
they cannot always determine the length and course of their mental
health care, they often do not have access to transportation to
begin services, to continue them, or to take advantage of follow-up
recommendations. The Therapeutic Assessment model is particularly
adaptable to community psychology because it allows maximum
interaction in the assessment process and promotes participation
and collaboration in an often dis-empowering system. This book will
be relevant to clinical psychologists, community psychologists,
social workers, family therapists, graduate students in psychology,
social work, marriage and family therapists, and counseling
programs.
Cutback management is a way of life for most public and private
sector organizations today, and the factors leading to its presence
are expected to be felt well into the 1990's and beyond. At the
same time, organizations are being faced with a changed internal
culture where employees want and need to be involved in decisions
that affect them. The author, who has been at the forefront of
assisting organizations in effectively managing both external and
internal change, explores the trends impacting state and local
governments in the next decade and beyond, describes the cutback
management environment that policy and decision makers face, and
lays out effective approaches to deal with this environment from
the bottom of the organization upward. In this manner,
organizations that identify techniques to improve revenues and
reduce costs can find lasting solutions that are accepted at all
organizational levels.
After reviewing the 15 major trends expected to impact state and
local governments during the 1990's and beyond, the author
describes the cutback management environment being faced by most
state and local governments. He then describes in detail how to set
a direction to address the cutback management environment through
the application of strategic planning and goes on to describe how
to organize around critical success factors in order to focus
resources on achievement of the organizational mission in light of
external and internal environmental factors. He explores various
techniques for improving employee productivity, ranging from the
use of new technology to better management systems to various types
of employee involvement. He then discusses the importance of values
in the achievement of a shared organizational vision and describes
various employee involvement processes that can be used to secure
buy-in by employees at all levels where organizational changes are
underway. Among other issues explored in depth are the use of
matrix management to improve productivity in a project-oriented
environment and contingency planning to deal with unforeseen
events. The book culminates with a description of how to use
strategic management as a day-to-day tool for effective bottom-up
cutback management, and provides real-life case situations of how
state and local governments are effectively dealing with the
cutback and involvement processes. This book is aimed at state and
local government policy and decision makers.
Designed for local government managers and administrators, this
pioneering work offers a clear and comprehensive guide to the use
of strategic planning techniques in the public sector. The author
presents a concise overview of the strategic planning process,
defines the terms involved, and provides a step-by-step methodology
for organizations ready to move into the actual implementation of
strategic planning. In addition to differentiating between
community-based, corporate, functional, and defined-purpose
strategic planning processes, Mercer explains the delineation
between strategic and tactical planning and offers practical
approaches to overcoming barriers to the use of strategic planning
in the public sector arena. Throughout, the author makes extensive
use of case studies of strategic planning programs implemented by a
variety of local government and public sector organizations.
Mercer begins by describing how strategic planning can be both
an effective tool for dealing with change and a technique of
organizational development. He goes on to provide detailed
instructions on how to prepare to conduct strategic planning, how
to determine strategic issues, the importance of a values audit,
and how to develop an environmental scan or assessment. Subsequent
chapters address determining organizational threats and
opportunities, composing the mission statement, defining critical
success factors and indicators, planning strategies, and assessing
strategic risks and benefits. Finally, the author shows how to
perform an internal assessment of ability to actually adopt and
carry out strategies, the importance of contingency planning, and
how to tie strategic planning to the budget and evaluate the
process. The public sector manager experienced with strategic
planning techniques can use the guide as a handy reference to
particular aspects of the process, while those new to strategic
planning will find this an indispensable aid in developing and
implementing their own internal strategic planning processes.
This book is the first comprehensive volume on the computer simulation of plant development. It contains a full account of the algorithms used to model plant shapes and developmental processes, Lindenmayer systems in particular. With nearly 50 color plates, the spectacular results of the modelling are vividly illustrated. "This marvelous book will occupy an important place in the scientific literature." #Professor Heinz-Otto Peitgen# "The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants will perform a valuable service by popularizing this enlightening and bewitching form of mathematics." #Steven Levy# " ... the garden here is full of delights and an excellent introduction to L-systems, ..." #Alvy Ray Smith, IEEE Computer Graphics and its Applications#
This book illuminates the process of child psychological assessment
in community psychology through discussion, theory, and case
studies of collaborative, systemic treatment of children and their
parents. "Assessing Children in the Urban Community" presents a
semi-structured form of collaborative psychological assessment,
designed to help clients gain new insights and make changes in
their lives. Traditional psychological assessment focuses on
diagnosis and treatment but has been slow to include contextual
elements, particularly social and cultural contexts into the
assessment process and psychological report. Clients receiving
services in a community psychology clinic pay for their treatment
through state welfare coverage. They cannot choose their providers,
they cannot always determine the length and course of their mental
health care, they often do not have access to transportation to
begin services, to continue them, or to take advantage of follow-up
recommendations. The Therapeutic Assessment model is particularly
adaptable to community psychology because it allows maximum
interaction in the assessment process and promotes participation
and collaboration in an often dis-empowering system. This book will
be relevant to clinical psychologists, community psychologists,
social workers, family therapists, graduate students in psychology,
social work, marriage and family therapists, and counseling
programs.
An authoritative how-to guide that explains every aspect of science
proposal writing This fully revised edition of the authoritative
guide to science proposal writing is an essential tool for any
researcher embarking on a grant or thesis application. In
accessible steps, the authors detail every stage of proposal
writing, from conceiving and designing a project to analyzing data,
synthesizing results, estimating a budget, addressing reviewer
comments, and resubmitting. This new edition is updated to address
changes and developments over the past decade, including
identifying opportunities and navigating the challenging
proposal-funding environment. The only how-to book of its kind, it
includes exercises to help readers stay on track as they develop
their grant proposals and is designed for those in the physical,
life, environmental, biomedical, and social sciences, as well as
engineering.
Autobiography of a WW II vet from his childhood in Utah through
service as an artilleryman in the European Theater, raising a
family in the 50's and helping build the aerospace industry in
California.
TRANSFORM YOUR FAVORITE NOVEL INTO YOUR PERSONAL WRITING COACH Have
you ever run up against a story problem that made you want to beat
your head against a wall, wishing for a way to correctly diagnose
and treat it? Is a manuscript lying paralyzed in a desk drawer
somewhere, waiting for a broken conflict to be mended? Do you long
to line your characters up in front of an X-ray machine so you can
peer inside them? Maybe it's time to call in a consulting team of
"specialists," experts in their field who've been there, done that,
and have the published novels (and reader fan base) to prove it.
Consider your favorite authors as doctors who, for the price of
their novels, can be called at any time to provide insights into a
difficult case. This book will empower you to- Analyze any novel,
movie, or television episode for insights into plot, conflict, and
character development. Track the four throughlines that make
engaging stories multidimensional. Master the eight sequences and
turning point events that infuse stories with meaningful change.
Identify the eight archetypes that "show, don't tell" theme.
Recognize the three different types of character arcs and nine
unique personalities that define character growth. Understand the
five empathy elements that win reader identification. Enjoy
examples drawn from modern bestsellers and timeless classics.
BONUS: in-depth analyses of J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy novel, The
Hobbit, and the blockbuster romantic comedy, While You Were
Sleeping. Includes original, easy-to-understand diagrams and
helpful charts available as handy printable versions online.
This leader's guide gives for each lesson: a purpose statement,
Bible background, and sections on beginning the lesson, developing
the lesson, concluding the lesson and a prayer. In the developing
the lesson section you will help class members look at how the
scriptures were heard in Bible times, how we hear them today and
how members can apply them to their life. Sessions: Genesis
2:4b-3:24Adam and Eve Genesis 6-9The Flood Genesis 28:10-22Jacob's
Ladder Genesis 37-45; 50:15-21Joseph Exodus 12:1-39The First
Passover Numbers 6:22-27The Benediction 2 Samuel 7The Unconditional
Covenant Job 19:25-27My Redeemer Lives Psalm 121My Help Comes From
the Lord Psalm 139Where Can I Go From Your Spirit Isaiah 40:1-11A
Voice in the Wilderness Isaiah 40:12-31Wings Like Eagles Micah
6:6-8What Does the Lord Require? Matthew 1:18-2:12When Jesus Was
Born Matthew 6:1-15The Lord's Prayer Mark 2:1-12Forgiveness of Sins
Mark 14:12-25The Last Supper Luke 4:16-30 Jesus Fulfills the
Prophecy Luke 10:25-37The Good Samaritan Luke 15:11-32The Waiting
Father John 1:1-18The Coming of the Word John 10:1-18The Good
Shepherd Acts 2:1-36The Day of Pentecost Philippians 2:1-11The Mind
of Christ Hebrews 11:1-3; 12:1-3Faith and Witnesses Revelation
7:9-17The Church Triumphant in Heaven Each session contains: Words
for Bible Times (how the scriptures were heard) Words for Our Time
(how we hear them today) Words for My Life (how we apply them to
our life)
separate Student Book #9780687071791 26 sessions / 45-60
minutes"
Refreshing insights into popular, well-loved Scripture passages.
Each lesson offers a biblical basis for facing life's decisions and
encourages a deeper personal faith. Contains 26scripture passages
for study that may be studied in any order. Appropriate for use in
groups or individual study. Volumes may be studies in any order.
Each lesson has approximately three pages of reading that can be
completed during a personal devotional time. For a complete listing
of scriptures click the Leader's Guide below. separate Leader's
Guide9780687071692"
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